Teresa Nielsen Hayden 1 Newspeak 0

In Making Light, Teresa Nielsen Hayden describes in detail how and why the astroturf organization 'Common Good' is in fact a Common Fraud.

TNH is also, in case you didn't know, the inventor of the disemvowelling concept (“The rule of thumb is that grossly offensive messages and drive-by trollpostings get deleted, but an excessively uncivil tone just makes your vowels disappear. Vigorous argument is appreciated, but a civil tone is required.”) Hmm. Maybe I should say “inventor or at least major popularizer, as apparently a [link fixed] related strategy has been around for a while. Online disemvoweller.